Data Recovery

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• Referral from November 19, 2013
  

  Dan J. asked:

  Can any of my computer geek friends out there recommend a data recovery place? Four drives. Raid configuration zero. Mac Pro Tower quad core.

  

  Nelson H. replied:

  Hi Dan. I had a similar problem. I used http://data-recovery-vancouver.com/. Give me a call and I can walk you through our situation.

  

  Garth C. replied:

  Not really, cloning could be a one time operation where a mirror is an ongoing clone of the disk. Technically when you "break" a mirror you have two clones, but for data recovery mirroring is not what you need.

  

  Ramon V. replied:

  The first step is to get the computer to boot. A failing drive should not prevent a power-up. It sounds more like a power supply or motherboard issue if you can't boot. Secondly, there are MANY software solutions, or RAID reconfigure options that can attempt a repair if you can get to that step. I wouldn't do this alone though. I bet a savvy Ubuntu pro has done this before. Thirdly, Data Recovery companies are a last resort, and they know this.

  

  Garth C. replied:

  Yes, data recovery is stupid expensive just for a single disk let alone disks in a striped array. Hopefully you will get lucky and it's just a drive motor or IO board.

  

  Morten R. replied:

  Data recovery is colossally expensive. $5000 sounds legit.

  

  John B. replied:

  Yeah, what Morten said - here's hoping it's something other than the physical drive. It's expensive because they have to do it all in a clean room (lab) and often have to some creative hardware hacking to get your data out of a broken drive mech. I haven't ever had data fail that warranted data recovery so can't speak from experience with any vendors.

  

  Johnson C. replied:

  Derrick: Any chance you have a recommendation for a data recovery place in Vancouver?

  

  Johnson C. replied:

  Sorry Dan, don't know any data recovery joints for a job that size (save all my mission critical stuff in the cloud; my stuff compresses well). Good luck - recovering data from 4 drive R0 doesn't sound easy -- or cheap. (gulp)

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